The New Politics of European Civil Society
Over the past two decades, civil society has played a pivotal role in Europe, from the demise of communist rule to the reunification of Europe, followed by the expansion of the single market to the reconstitution of democracy in the enlarged European Union.
European civil society has emerged as a social space between EU governance and the citizens of the member states, populated by non-state agents claiming to represent, speak for or participate on behalf of the most varied social constituencies in EU decision making. This book consolidates European civil society research by re-viewing its conceptual, normative and empirical-analytical foundations. With contributors from political science to sociology to law, it captures the evolving practices of European civil society that stretch across the national (local), the European and the global realm. Developing an analytical framework that highlights the interplay between civil society building and polity building from above as well as from below, within the legal and institutional framework of the European Union, they examine whether and, if so, how civil society can contribute to making democracy work in normative democratic theoretical perspectives.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of civil society, European politics, political science and sociology.
Ulrike Liebert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen, Germany. Hans-Jrg Trenz is Professor at ARENA, University of Oslo.
Routledge studies on democratising Europe
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
ARENA, University of Oslo
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe focuses on the prospects for a citizens Europe by analysing the kind of order that is emerging in Europe. The books in the series take stock of the EU as an entity that has progressed beyond intergovernmentalism and consider how to account for this process and what makes it democratic. The emphasis is on citizenship, constitution making, public sphere, enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and Europe society.
1 Developing a Constitution for Europe
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen, John Erik Fossum and Agustn Jos Menndez
2 Making the European Polity: Reflexive Integration in the EU
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen
3 Questioning EU Enlargement
Edited by Helen Sjursen
4 The European Union and the Public Sphere: A Communicative Space in the Making?
Edited by John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger
5 Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union
The unsettled political order of Europe
Edited by Erik Oddvar Eriksen, Christian Joerges and Florian Rdl
6 The New Politics of European Civil Society
Edited by Ulrike Liebert and Hans-Jrg Trenz
The New Politics of European Civil Society
Edited by Ulrike Liebert and Hans-Jrg Trenz
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The new politics of European civil society/edited by Ulrike Liebert and Hans-Jrg Trenz.
p. cm. (Routledge studies on democratising Europe; 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Civil societyEurope. 2. EuropePolitics and government1989 3.
European Union countriesPolitics and government. I. Liebert, Ulrike.
II. Trenz, Hans-Jrg.
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Andrew Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at The New School in New York City. He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and at Sciences Po in Paris, and at the Central European University in Budapest, and was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. His research interests include the politics of civil society, constitutional theory, the comparative politics of constitution making, as well as religion, secularism and constitutions. Among his publications are Civil Society and Political Theory (co-authored with J. L. Cohen) (1992); From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory (1993); and Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy (2000).
Nadine Bernhard is Doctoral Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB). Her research interests include social inequality, institutional change, and dynamics and consequences of Europeanization processes. Her main publications are: Organisierte Zivilgesellschaft im EU-Verfassungsprozess: Partner des Regierens oder Konstituent politischer Ordnung?, in Berliner Journal fr Soziologie (with H.-J. Trenz and E. Jentges) (2009); and Comparing the relationship between vocational and higher education in Germany and France, WZB Discussion Paper (with J. Powell, L. Coutrot, L. Graf, A. Kieffer and H. Solga) (2009).
Klaus Eder is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences and of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. His research interests concentrate on sociological theory, the public sphere, collective identity, civil society and social movements. His main publications include European Citizenship: National Legacies and Postnational Projects (co-edited with B. Giesen) (2000); Collective Memory and European Identity: The Effects of Integration and Enlargement (co-edited with W. Spohn) (2005); and A theory of collective identity: Making sense of the debate on a European identity, in European Journal of Social Theory (2009).
Erik Jentges is Senior Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zrich. His research interests are political communication, political sociology, public interest groups and processes of Europeanization. Jentges main publications include Whose project is it? Media debates on ratification, in Journal of European Public Policy (with R. Vetters and H.-J. Trenz (2009); and Organisierte Zivilgesellschaft im EU-Verfassungsprozess. Partner des Regierens oder Konstituent politischer Ordnung, in Berliner Journal fr Soziologie (2009) (with N. Bernhard and H.-J. Trenz).
Beate Kohler-Koch is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Mannheim University and Distinguished Professor at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science. Her research interests are European governance and civil society organizations in the European Union. Her recent publications include
